Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE denied your claim in New Hampshire. Here is your deadline.

You are not alone, and here is the measured version of that sentence: 31,257 in-network claims were denied by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE in New Hampshire in a single plan year. A denial rate is a fact about an insurer's book of business. It is not a judgment about you, and it is not the last word on your claim.

• Of the 3 insurers reporting a denial rate in New Hampshire, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE is the first highest at 30%. The highest in the state is 30% and the lowest is 6.7%.
• That is 14.3 percentage points above the 15.7% national average across this dataset, and 22 points above the New Hampshire average of 8%.
• Behind the percentage: 104,060 in-network claims were processed under 9 plans in New Hampshire, and 31,257 of them came back denied.
• For every 10,000 claims Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE denied, about 6 came back as an internal appeal. The other 9,994 stopped at the letter.
• Not one of those denials reached independent external review, the stage whose decision the plan is required by law to accept, and where nationally 22.2% (1,092 of 4,918; interval 22.2-23.8% for counts CMS withheld; 32.6% without SelectHealth) are overturned.
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE accounts for 19.7% of every in-network claim denied in New Hampshire in this file.
• By raw volume it is the 107th largest source of denials among the 135 insurer-state records in the file that report one.
• Read the other way round: 72,803 of those 104,060 in-network claims were paid, 70% of everything Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE processed in New Hampshire.
• Spread across the 9 plans it reports in New Hampshire, that is about 3,473 denied claims per plan, on about 11,562 claims processed per plan.
• Against the file as a whole, this one record is 0% of the 83,907,852 in-network claim denials reported by every issuer in it.

What happened to appeals

What that record means for your own Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE letter, and by when. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE recorded 31,257 denials in New Hampshire and no separately reported appeal outcome, so this page cannot tell you how its New Hampshire appeals went, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE rows in the plan-year 2027 release of the CMS Transparency in Coverage file, read November 4, 2026 (data.healthcare.gov). Whichever way that lands, nobody files the appeal for you, and the filing runs on a clock set by which plan you hold: an employer or Marketplace plan gives you at least 180 days from the denial notice to file the internal appeal (29 CFR 2560.503-1(h)(3)(i), carried onto individual-market coverage by 45 CFR 147.136(b)(3)(i)), while Medicare Advantage gives you 65 calendar days from the date of its notice (CMS, 42 CFR 422.582(b)) and Medicaid managed care 60 calendar days from the date on the notice (42 CFR 438.402(c)(2)(ii)), both stages free, and the three steps above are the whole of what to do tonight, so take the date printed on your Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE notice and file well inside whichever of those windows is yours. The free steps are above; the $29 kit is the same clock with the letters pre-filled for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE in New Hampshire. One payment. No subscription. No cut of your claim.

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE inside New Hampshire

Your denial did not happen in a national average. It happened in a state market, alongside 2 other insurers reporting into the same federal file, and these are that market's own figures.

• Across the whole of New Hampshire, the 3 insurers reporting in this file processed 1,976,492 in-network claims and denied 158,490 of them, a state denial rate of 8%. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE is one of those 3.
• That puts New Hampshire 27th of 29 states by denial rate, 7.7 points below the 15.7% national average, before you get to what Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE did inside it.
• New Hampshire recorded 443 internal appeals against those denials: one appeal for every 358 claims the state's insurers refused. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE's own ratio is one for every 1,563.
• Not one denial in New Hampshire reached independent external review in the reported year, not Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE's and not any other insurer's in the state. That is the stage whose decision the plan is required by law to accept.
• The reason New Hampshire's insurers record most often is service excluded from the plan, 44,110 claims, 36.8% of the state's categorized denials.
• The other insurers a New Hampshire reader could have bought from run from 14.5% (Boston Medical Center Health Plan, Inc.) to 6.7% (Matthew Thornton Health Plan, Inc.). Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE at 30% sits above all of them.
• Put the two together and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE is responsible for 19.7% of every in-network claim denied in New Hampshire in this release, from 5.3% of the claims the state's insurers processed.
• Every New Hampshire figure in this section is that state's own row in the same federal file Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE's numbers above come from, CMS Transparency in Coverage Public Use File (PY2027 release, PY2025 claims), data.healthcare.gov — US Government public domain, and the full New Hampshire page is free at /states/new-hampshire.

The three steps at the top of this page are the whole of what you have to do tonight. The longer version, what the internal appeal has to contain, how the independent stage works, and how to ask for expedited handling when waiting would seriously jeopardize your health, is published free here.

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